We are a Japanese group which has been conducting the Decentralization Conference in Japan. Our first one was done about a year ago. We have not done a second one yet, but we are planning to do one next year if the Japan NSF supports us. Our core members are

Tsukuba: Yoshihiko Otani, Mamoru Kaneko, Akihiko Matsui, and Yoshikatsu Tatamitani
Tokyo: Hitoshi Matsushima, Michihiro Kandori, and Kazuya Kamiya
Hitotsubashi: Koichi Tadenuma
Keio: Takako Fujiwara Greve
Tokyo Metro: Takehiko Yamato
Hosei: Midori Hirokawa
Kyoto: Hideshi Itoh, and Kenichi Shimomura and Akira Okada
Osaka: Tatsuyoshi Saijo
Kansai: Ryoichi Nagahisa
Kobe: Hideo Suehiro

We hope that we can exchange conference information between the United States and Japan.

Tatsuyoshi Saijo
Communication Secretary of the Group.
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Tatsuyoshi Saijo, Institute of Socio-Economic Planning
University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305, Japan
Phone +81-298 (country & area codes)53-5027(lab)
53-5379 (office)/53-5182 (institute)/55-3849 (fax)
E-mail: saijo@shako.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp



First Decentralization Conference in Japan

November 11, 1994

10:30-11:00 Opening Speech: Hiyoaki Osana (Keio University) and Leonid Hurwicz (Minnesota)

11:10-12:10 Tatsuyoshi Saijo (Tsukuba), Yoshikatsu Tatamitani (Tsukuba) and Takehiko Yamato (Tokyo Metro),
"Characterizing Natural Implementability: The fair and Walrasian Correspondences."

Lunch

1:30-2:30 Thomas Sjostrom (Harvard),
"Credibility and Renegotiation of Outcome Functions in Implementation."

2:40-3:40 Taesung Kim (Caltech & Seoul National Univ.) and John Ledyard (Caltech),
"First Best Bayesian Privatization Mechanisms."

3:40-4:00 Break

4:00-5:00 Ryo-ichi Nagahisa (Kansai) and Koichi Suga (Fukuoka),
"Impossibility Theorems with Interpersonal Welfare Comparison: 'Extended Sympathy Approach' Reconsidered."

5:10-6:10 Leonid Hurwicz (Minnesota),
"On Institutions as Special Classes of Multi-stage mechanism."

November 12, 1994

10:00-11:00 Midori Hirokawa (Hosei),
"Small Dictator and Grand Dictator."

11:10-12:10 Jude Kline (Australian National University),
"Information Structures and Decentralization of Equilibria."

Lunch

1:30-2:30 Michihiro Kandori (Tokyo) and Hitoshi Matsushima (Tokyo),
"Private Observation, Communication and Collusion."

2:40-3:40 Stephen Turnbull (Tsukuba),
"The Evolution of Competition from Cooperation."

3:40-4:00 Break

4:00-5:00 Thomas Palfrey (Caltech),
"Quantal Response Equilibrium: A Statistical Theory of Games."

November 13, 1994

10:00-11:00 Wen Mao (Tulane),
"On the Inconsistent Behavior in Voting for Incumbents and for Term Limitation."

11:10-12:10 Takako Fujiwara-Greve (Keio),
"Feasibility and Optimality of Class Assignment Rules."

Lunch

1:30-2:30 Hiroshi Osano (Osaka),
"Default and Renegotiation in Financial Distress in the Multiple Banks Model: The Analysis of the Main Bank System."

2:40-3:40 Lin Zhou (Yale), Robert Anderson (Berkeley) and Walter Trockel (Bielefeld),
"Nonconvergence of the Mas-Colell and Zhou Bargaining Sets."

3:40-4:00 Break

4:00-5:00 Yoshihiko Otani (Tsukuba),
"Consumption Allocations and Real Indeterminacy of Manipulative Equilibrium in a Strategic Walrasian Market Game."

5:00-6:10 Herve Moulin (Duke),
"On Strategyproof Cost Sharing."

6:15-6:35 Closing Speech: Kotaro Suzumura (Hitotsubashi & the Japanese Economic Review Editor)